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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- IoT in Action: How DataStax used Azure to Build a Scalable and Resilient IoT Infrastructure via Microsoft IoT
- FREE Azure Cloud Resources for Students via Imagine Access / DreamSpark by Lee Stott
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse general availability expanding to 18 regions worldwide by Prem Prakash
- Azure Event Hubs now live on new Azure portal! by Shubha Vijayasarathy
- Azure Resource Manager Template Visualization with ARMVIZ by Tobias Zimmergren
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
- Fixing Azure Portal Errors by Chris Pietschmann
- Getting Started with Microsoft Azure Services Fabric by Lee Stott
- Azure Active Directory Labs Series – Protect Web App by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Does SQL Azure DB support automatic indexed views? by Raghda Alden
- HDInsight HBase: 9 things you must do to get great HBase performance by Ashish Thapliyal
- How can I set a message to dead lettered – Azure Service Bus by Maheshk
- Azure the AT&T IoT Starter Kit by Greg Duncan
- How to setup CRON to run a WebJob on the Azure App Service platform by Benjamin Perkins
- What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: September 2016 Digest by Buck Hodges
- The biggest PCI coverage in the industry just got bigger by Alice Rison
- Event Hubs Client for Java 0.8.1 is now live by John Taubensee
- Rerunning many slices and activities in Azure Data Factory by Jason H
- Microsoft enabling customers to “go to” MARS-E by Matt Rathbun
- Partner Center API and Power BI Isaiah Williams
- Opsgility Announces new Microsoft Azure Training and Learning Paths via Opsgility
- Use Case: Azure Backup in Azure Government by Pishoy Bous
- Set up DevTest Labs to send auto-shutdown notification by Xiaoying Guo
- Exploring HockeyApp data in Application Insights: introducing the Bridge App by Evgeny Ternovsky
- Microsoft Data Science Virtual Machine for Windows and Linux now available by Lee Stott
- New ARM Templates: To assist O365 Addin Development & Testing by Jamie Dalton
- Azure VMs need Internet Access by Nicole Welch
- Pen Testing FROM Azure Virtual Machines by Thomas W Shinder
- Build you data science skills – and your network – in Atlanta by Amanda Papp
- Azure Resource Manager tools for Visual Studio Code by Tobias Zimmergren
- Configuring the Azure Kubernetes infrastructure with Bash scripts and Ansible tasks by Stephane Goudeau
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Azure Redis Cache Best Practices via Azure Friday
- Increase Performance through Redis Cluster in Azure Redis Cache by Azure Friday
- Loading data into Azure SQL Datawarehouse with Redgate Data Platform Studio by Stuart Leeks
- Azure Platform Monitoring Overview by Seth Juarez
- Using JSON in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- Tuesdays with Corey: The Goodness of Azure Logic Apps via Channel 9
Audio / Podcasts
To complete the collection of different mediums to allow you to consume your Azure news / info in any way you want, here’s a list of the podcasts released this week:
- API Management – Episode 142 via The Azure Podcast
- Office 365 News for Education and Onenote – Azure GA Updates, New VM Types and Gartner News | Episode 144 via Microsoft Cloud Show
General Cloud
Here’s some note worthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Intel Joule is an IoT Powerhouse by Chris Pietschmann
- GrovePi+ Plug-n-Play IoT Platform by Chris Pietschmann
- Publishing an ASP.NET Core website to a cheap Linux VM host by Scott Hanselman
- PowerShell on Linux – Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner demo | PowerShell Open Source Project via Channel 9
- IBM’s Watson, IoT and Weather Forecasting via Adafruit
Book of the Week
Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure
by Michael Collier, Robin Shahan
The material covered in this Free eBook is targeted towards introducing both Developers and IT Professionals to the huge range of features and capabilities within the Microsoft Azure platform.